Onsen in Hokkaido

Hokkaido · 20

• Goshiki Onsen Somewhere between Niseko Annupuri and the bare volcanic slopes of Iwaonupuri, in a depression between peaks, there is a
• Nifubushi Onsen
• Kitayuzawa Onsen The Nagatoro River moves through this valley without hurry, and the hot spring town along its banks carries a similar qu
• Tokachigawa Onsen The water here is not what you expect.
• Sobetsu Onsen The water here comes from deep beneath volcanic ground, rising at temperatures between 67 and 91 degrees Celsius, at a r
• Jozankei Onsen It sits barely an hour from Sapporo, and yet the city dissolves almost immediately.
• Kussharo Kohan Onsen
• Sounkyo Onsen The gorge does the talking here.
• Kawayu Onsen In eastern Hokkaido, in the town of Teshikaga, a river runs hot.
• Asahidake Onsen The name the Ainu gave this drainage was Yukomanubetsu — the river that runs toward hot water.
• Kobukawa Onsen The train stops at Konbu Station, and within three minutes you are there.
• Ikenoyu Onsen
• Toyako Onsen The waters here owe everything to upheaval.
• Niseko Annupuri Onsen The water here is sodium-bicarbonate, sulfate, and chloride — a compound that sounds like chemistry but feels, on the sk
• Kotan Onsen There is a particular quality of stillness that belongs to lakeshores — the sense that water has its own patience, its o
• Yunokawa Onsen Yunokawa sits at the southeastern edge of Hakodate, where the city simply runs out of land and meets the Tsugaru Strait.
• Noboribetsu Onsen What arrives first is the sulfur — not faint, not subtle, but the unmistakable announcement that the earth here is activ
• Bankei Onsen The waters here carry the memory of long use.
• Akanko Onsen The lake is the first thing, and the last.
• Niseko Ekimae Onsen There is a version of Niseko that has nothing to do with ski lifts or powder snow forecasts.